Here Are The Oldest Photos Ever Taken In North Carolina And They’re Incredible

While we might never find a time machine that transports us back to a simpler time, photographs have the same effect, giving us a visual and emotional glimpse of a time we’d never witness otherwise. With photography rising to prominence in the mid-to-late 1800s, the world was no longer captured through the tedious process of painting or drawing, but captured in a flash and now available for us to witness the progression of our state from the late 1800s to now.

1. The State Capitol Building in 1880, not too long after it was first built in 1833.